The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-14

had their bonds to cover five additional
indictments for conspiracy and two foI
bribery, Sl5, 600 being added to the
bonds. Commissioner GRtz appeared
with two sureties. There were eight
additional indictments for conspiracy
| and one for bribery against Mr.. GetZ,
and the amount of his bond was in
creased by SIS, 900. &C. Warren gave
bonds under one Indictment for con-
spiracy in the sum Of $4,000.
FIRE AT OMAHA.
OMAHA, Neb., April IA fire this
morning at the South Omaha Union
Stock Yards destroyed four hundred
tons of hay, four thousand bushels of
corn and portion of the yards. Loss,
S15, 600.
DRUG STORE TRAGEDY.
| KANSAS CITY, April IA special to
the Journal from Joplin says: As a
| result of the late Kansas Liquor Law
another murder has been added to the
history of this (Jasper) county. Galena,
| kas., is eight miles from Joplin and
the law went into effect the druggists of
| this place have refused to handle in
toxicating liquors. To supply the de-
mandS of the drinking element of that
town a drug store just across the line,
on the Missouri side. was started by q
man named John Gill, and liquor sold
on the prescription plan. The rough
est characters of men and lewd
women have been in the habit
of congregating there, and some of the
scenes enacted have been most revolt
ing to the farmers and others residing
in the vicinity. Last night there were
about half u dozen men present. About
6 o'clock one of the number, Frank
Granger, a married man of Galena,
while intoxicated was shot and in
stantly killed, the deed being commit
ted by Il young man named John
TOmpkins. The latter was not drink
ing and had no Just provocation for the
cowardly act. The officers of this city
were notified and coroner S inquest
held. The testimony of witnesses
shows the murder to have been one of
cold blood. A warrant was obtained
this morning and officers are i'll pur-
suit. Indignant parties this morning
set fire to the building after the officers
left and burned it and the contents to
the ground.
DIED IN DISGRACE.
HAGERTowN, Md, April For
the Globe, and proprietor of a stationery
store in this city, has been annoyed by
petty stealing from his store. He sus-
pected a. L. BowSer, who had been in
his employ ten years. Tuesday night
he and companion Secreted them
selve in the store. About IL O'Clock
they saw BOwser enter from the prints
ing Office adjoining, and extract the con-
tents of the cash box. Hays struck a
light and called on the rObber to sur
render, when Bowser drew a revolver
and shot himself through the head,
dying almost instantly. Bowser, who
was much respected leaves a wife and
three children.
A CLUE TO THE MURDER.
RAILWAY, y. J., April lotto
Heisler, of New York, visited the
Morgue to-day. He says he came to
this country on the steamer Western
Land, which arrived here on July 14th.
Among the passengers on the steamer
was Nina Morse, a young German
girl, and her lover, Max Kinder. She
was 23-years old, and Kinder several
years older. She had two drafts, one
for 81 200, and one for $500. Heisler
thought the dead girl was Miss Morse,
but could identify the clothing.
Morse is the name worked on the edge
of the handkerchief found in the valise
picked up in the river near the scene of
the murder.
FOUND GUILTY.
ST. LOUIS. April Peter r. Nor
risey, ex-member of the lower house of
the municipal assembly, and one of the
judges of the election in this city last
November, who has been on trial before
the United States Circuit Court for
three days past for fraudulently regis
tering voters, and with receiving
illegal votes while acting as judge of
the election, was found guilty this af-
ternOon of the latter charge. A new
grand jury for the United States Cir
omit (NnIII-t fn-6nU FhoU
will continue the investigation of the
election frauds which was left unfin-
ished by the previous grand jury, and
it is expected that more indictments
Will be found.
BURNED TO DEATH.
KANSAS CITY, April IA Times
Shellbind, Mo-, special says: Two
young children of Calvin Gordon were
left at home yesterday by their mother
and were burned to death in the house
before she returned.
SUFFERING CONTINUES.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April RE
ports of great suffering from drOuth
continue to come in from the cotton
and cattle districts of the Southwest.
BODY FOUND.
ST. JOE, Mo-, April An old man
named Bates, while catching drift wood
near Turner FraZier's grocery house
late this evening, brought in what was
supposed to be q log, but to his horror
found it to be the body of a woman.
The body had been in the water about
ten days and was badly decomposed.
The coroner was notified, but as the
body exhibited no marks of violence,
and as its identy. could not be estab-
liShed, no inquest was held and the
body was ordered buried.
HANGED.
Fort SMITH, Ark, April S.-Patrick
McCarty was hanged here to day for
the murder of Thomas and John Ma
honey in the Cherokee Nation, on the
18th of February, 1886. The evidence
was purely circumstantial, there being
no witness to the crime, and McCarty
died protesting his innocence. Ac-
cording to the testimony, McCarty left
Red Fork, l. T., February Is in COM
pany with Tom and John
Mahoney and Joe Sprule, bound for
Springfield, Missouri. The Mahoney
railroad and had some money and two
good teams. On the night of the 18th
McCarty and Sprule planned the muir.
| der and robbery of these boys, and
| arming themselves while their victims
| slept, murdered them in cold blood.
| Sprule had a gun and McCarty
a pistol. The latter fired,
killing Tom Mahoney instantly, but
Sprule's gun snapped and John Ma
honey jumped up, but was Drained
with an axe. The bodies were robbed
and thrown in a ditch near Bankers
coal bank, close to the Kansas line,
where they were subsequently found
and identified. Dividing the spoils,
the muIderers separated and Sprule is
| still at large, but McCarty was arrest
ed one year ago to-day and brought
here for trial. He was convicted Sep.
| TENDER 80. and sentenced with five
others to hang January IA, but the
President respited him until April
This is the theory of the prosecution
substantiated by the fact of McCarty
having in his possession property Of
Mahoney's, but he protested his limo
cence and with crucifix in his
hands ON the gallows vowed
he knew nothing of the murder
The general impression here is that he
was innocent, and that in his cast
circumstances lied. He was the
nerviest man of the sixty-six persons
that have beon hanged here within the